Alois Jirásek
Also known as Alois Jirasek
Czech writer (1851–1930)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1851
- Died
- 1930
- Works
- 87
Top works
- Mezi proudy
- Sochineniia
- Epilog
- Dobromila Rettig
- F.L. Věk
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · Hronov, Bohemia, AustriaHungary [now Czech Republic]
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
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- 82
Works in European collections
12 objects attributed to Alois Jirásek, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
España libre : drama alegórico en un acto
Origin description of the merciful crucifix, which began to break out of a Wall at the Perau near Villach in the Duchy of Carinthia of wonderful willows around the year 1708: Come your Christian with confidence, And visit this place!
Series Colocensium praesulum adornata complurium historicorum combinatione ac sermoni funebri in exequiis Ladislai comitis a Kollonitz, archiepiscopi quondam Colocensis habito premissa.
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Alois Jirásek ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈalojs ˈjɪraːsɛk]) (23 August 1851 – 12 March 1930) was a Czech writer, author of historical novels and plays. Jirásek was a high school history teacher in Litomyšl and later in Prague until his retirement in 1909. He wrote a series of historical novels imbued with faith in his nation and in progress toward freedom and justice. He was close to many important Czech personalities like Mikoláš Aleš, Josef Václav Sládek, Karel Václav Rais or Zdeněk Nejedlý. He attended an art club in Union Cafe with them. He worked as an editor in Zvon magazine and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1918, 1919, 1921 and 1930.
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1851 births1930 deaths19th-century Czech dramatists and playwrights19th-century Czech male writers19th-century Czech novelists20th-century Czech dramatists and playwrights20th-century Czech male writers20th-century Czech novelistsCzechoslovak National Democracy politiciansDramatists and playwrights from Austria-HungaryMembers of the Revolutionary National Assembly of Czechoslovakia
